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Page 37 of 871919 · PDF PAGE 395
…e world of deluded mortals. This is quite contrary to Buddhist teaching. Buddha cer- tainly had ‘Parinirvana,’ if there be such a thing, though, as Nirvana means ‘Annihilation’ and ‘Parinirvana’ ‘complete Annihilation,’ it requires a mind more metaphysical than mine to distinguish between these. It is quite certain that Buddha did not require any old Kalpas to get there, and to suppose that Buddha is still about, watching over the world, degrades him to a common Deity, and is in flat contradic- tion to the statements in the Mahaparinibbana Sutt…
1909 · PDF PAGE 9
… its form. Existence is just existence, and there’s no more to be said about it; don’t worry! Ah, but there is more to be said about it! Though we search ourselves for a thought to match the word, and fail, yet we have Berkeley’s perfectly convincing argument that (so far as we know it) existence must mean thinking existence or spiritual existence. Here then we find our Zs¢ to imply Cogitatur,; and Berkeley’s arguments are “‘irrefragable, yet fail to produce conviction” (Hume) because the Cogitatur, as we have shown, implies Zs¢. Neither of the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 138
…June 28, we find this entry— “Glory be to Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit in the Highest! A little before midday I was impelled mysteriously (though exhausted by playing fives, billiards, etc. till nearly six this morning), to make a final search for Elemental Tablets. And lo! when I had at last abandoned the search, I cast mine eyes upon a hole in the loft, where were ski, etc., and there, O Holy, Holy, Holy! were not only all that I sought, but the manuscript of Liber Legis!” It was the last straw. For the next two days he remained in meditation, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 138
…June 28, we find this entry— “Glory be to Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit in the Highest! A little before midday I was impelled mysteriously (though exhausted by playing fives, billiards, etc. till nearly six this morning), to make a final search for Elemental Tablets. And lo! when I had at last abandoned the search, I cast mine eyes upon a hole in the loft, where were ski, etc., and there, O Holy, Holy, Holy! were not only all that I sought, but the manuscript of Liber Legis!” It was the last straw. For the next two days he remained in meditation, …
1919 · PDF PAGE 219
…ehending the nature of its teaching, to their zeal in spreading the principles of the Order so far as they them- selves understand them, though always with the discretion inseparable from the due guarding of the secrets, and to all 205
1919 · PDF PAGE 365
…bound and blindfolded by ignorance. The metaphysical puzzle to which this gives rise cannot be discussed here—it is insoluble by reason, though one may call attention to the inherent incommensurability of a postulated absolute with an observed relative. 10. But even ignorance is better than Head-learning with no Soul-wisdom to illumine and guide it. The word “better” is used rather sentimentally, for, as “It 43
1906 · PDF PAGE 235
…lation to motor-cars, with ease and affability. But far was it from Indra’s pious mind to flirt with his distinguished guest! Rather, he thought of the hollow nature of the Safe, the change of money and of position; the sorrow of the too confiding bankers, and above all the absence of an Ego in the Brothers Crawford. ‘While he was thus musing, Bhavani got fairly mad at him. The Spretae Injuria Formae gnawed her vitals with pangs un- assuageable: so, shaking him quite roughly by the arm, she Put It To Him Straight. ‘O Madam !’ said Indra. ‘‘This…
1903 · PDF PAGE 15
…y not my meaning either; for change, to our minds, involves the idea of time. But the whole thing is incon- ceivable — to ratiocination, though not to thought. Note well too that ifI say “Absence-of-book is not on the table” I cannot convert it into “All books are on the table” but only to “some books are on the table”. The proposition is an “E” and not an “*A” proposition. It is the Advaita blunder to make it so; and many a school- boy has fed off the mantelpiece for less. There is yet another proof—the proof by exclusion. I have shown, and me…
1907 · PDF PAGE 319
312 THE STAR IN THE WEST duced in a halfpenny test tube ; so in the West , though the state arrived at was one similar to that worked out on Eastern principles , it was intensely more regal and majestic ; for whilst the rishi sat in a howling jungle , contemplating the tip of his nose , the mystic philosopher was groping in the charnel - house of death , midst drear effigies of the living , and dread symbols of the dead , and lit the same triple flame of glory , losing himself in that poetic vision of rapture , so entirely unknown in the prosai…
1919 · PDF PAGE 337
…-Ego. The phe- nomenon described is perhaps Atmadarshana, which is still a delusion, in one sense still a delusion of personality; for although the Ego is destroyed in the Universe, and the Uni- verse in it, there is a distinct though exceedingly subtle ten- dency to sum up its experience as Ego. These three verses might be interpreted also as quite ele- mentary; v. 14 as blindness to the First Noble Truth “Everything is Sorrow”; v. 15 as the coward’s attempt to escape Sorrow by Retreat; and v. 16 as the acceptance of the Astral as SAT. 17. Thi…
1919 · PDF PAGE 392
…turneth whence it came. The Open PATH leads to the changeless change—Nirvéna, the glori- ous state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought. 78. Thus, the first Path is LIBERATION. 79. But Path the second is RENUNCIATION, and therefore called the “Path of Woe.” There is far too much emotionalism in this part of the treatise, though perhaps this is the fault of the language; but the attitude of contemplating the sorrow of the Universe eternally is unmanly and unscientific. In the practical at- tempt to aid suffering, the consciousness of th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 539
…atever. I see quite clearly now that Yoga from its very first beginnings is liable to lead the mind away into a condition of muddle, and though for each such state Yoga itself provides the necessary cure, may not one ask oneself it it is really wise to begin one's work with axioms and postulates which are inherently dangerous. The whole controversy might be expressed as a differential equation. Their curves become identical only at infinity, and there is no doubt, at least to my mind, that the curve of Magick follows a more pleasant track than …
1909 · PDF PAGE 88
…e real Devil of the Operation must be sitting with sardonic grin upon his face, enjoying my perplexity For that Dweller-of-the—Threshold-thought was not as dead as I supposed ; as Iwrite he comes again and again, urging me to quit the Path, to abandon the unequal contest. Luckily, friend Dweller, you prove too much 1 Your anxiety shows me that I am not as far from attainment as my own feelings would have me think. At least, though, I am thrown into the active again ; I shall rise and chant the Enochian Calls and invoke the Bornless One, and cle…
1909 · PDF PAGE 24
…tupid, will fail to get some result; but there is great danger that he will be led astray, obsessed and overwhelmed by his results, even though it be by those which it is necessary that he should attain. Too often, moreover, he mistaketh the first resting-place for the goal, and taketh off his armour as if he were a victor ere the fight is well begun. It is desirable that the student should never attach to any result the importance which it at first seems to possess. 6. First, then, let us consider the Book 777 and its use; the preparation of t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 24
…tupid, will fail to get some result; but there is great danger that he will be led astray, obsessed and overwhelmed by his results, even though it be by those which it is necessary that he should attain. Too often, moreover, he mistaketh the first resting-place for the goal, and taketh off his armour as if he were a victor ere the fight is well begun. It is desirable that the student should never attach to any result the importance which it at first seems to possess. 6. First, then, let us consider the Book 777 and its use; the preparation of t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 125
…Spirit of God ; the tube is the Influence (Heb. Mezla) from on high ; the mouthpiece the love of one’s earthly teacher ; (This sounds as though Sufi confessors shared the predilections and privileges of Jesuit confessors) the inhalation is the enlightenment of the soul ; the exhalation the holy influence shed by the Sufi upon his fellow man — and so on. Mahbub was perfectly willing to explain every phrase in the book along these lines ; reasonable people will agree that a single sample is enough. But see the note 1 on XXXVIIIth Ghazal. 4. Arist…
1911 · PDF PAGE 155
… back, stunned by the bludgeon truth. “ Ι am a Fool ! " “ Not by a long chalk! Keep your end up, and you’ll be a Magus in this life yet, though In the meantime—oh, be a Devil!" The younger man divined the infinite love and wisdom beneath the brusquerie of the Brother. His eyes filled with tears. “ I'll win her, sir, by God I " he said enthusiastically. “Lose yourself to her. Only so. Off now, boy! I am busy. I must twiddle—twiddle—twiddle." Edgar bowed and went. He could not trust himself to speak: the Love that was the whole being of the Brother…
1911 · PDF PAGE 155
… back, stunned by the bludgeon truth. “ Ι am a Fool ! " “ Not by a long chalk! Keep your end up, and you’ll be a Magus in this life yet, though In the meantime—oh, be a Devil!" The younger man divined the infinite love and wisdom beneath the brusquerie of the Brother. His eyes filled with tears. “ I'll win her, sir, by God I " he said enthusiastically. “Lose yourself to her. Only so. Off now, boy! I am busy. I must twiddle—twiddle—twiddle." Edgar bowed and went. He could not trust himself to speak: the Love that was the whole being of the Brother…
1911 · PDF PAGE 105
… For cunningly doth he talk of many things, going from subject to subject, and thus he misleadeth the wary into argu- ment with him. And though Choronzon be easily beaten in argument, yet, by disturbing the attention of him who would command him, doth he gain the victory. For Choronzon feareth of all things concentration and silence: he therefore who would command him should will in silence: thus is he brought to obey. This the Scribe knoweth; for that since the obtaining of the Accurstd Tenth Aethyr, he hath held converse with Choronzon. And u…
1919 · PDF PAGE 406
…e explain to me the exact difference between this Doc- trine and that which we heard from Shri Parananda that the attainment of Samadhi, though it depended to some extent upon the attainment of the Yogi, depended also upon the grace of the Lord Shiva, and that Yoga did us all no good unless the Lord Shiva happened to be in a good temper. Then the Bhikkhu replied in a dramatic whisper, “There is no difference, except that it is not Buddhism.” From this example the Student will understand that he had better not worry about Nibbana and its nature,…